"return ball" meaning in English

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      "form": "return balls",
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      "expansion": "return ball (plural return balls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
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          "ref": "2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "It was a dreadful goal to concede as Ariel Ibagaza was able to take a short corner and then receive the return ball in space on the left. He stood up a floated cross into the middle where Fuster arrived unmarked to steer a header into the corner.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A pass back to the initial passer"
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) A pass back to the initial passer"
      ],
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
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      "glosses": [
        "A ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, used as a plaything."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 86",
          "word": "return pass"
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  "word": "return ball"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "return balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "It was a dreadful goal to concede as Ariel Ibagaza was able to take a short corner and then receive the return ball in space on the left. He stood up a floated cross into the middle where Fuster arrived unmarked to steer a header into the corner.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pass back to the initial passer"
      ],
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        "(sports) A pass back to the initial passer"
      ],
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        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
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        "A ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, used as a plaything."
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    {
      "word": "return pass"
    }
  ],
  "word": "return ball"
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